Fürstenstrasse was renamed to Fetscherstrasse after 1945(source StadtWiki Dresden), the former City Hospital is now part of Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital.
- 1943, July 24, Saturday midday – Katz is not allowed to treat Eva, but from among the Aryan doctors we would like to have a non-Nazi one, because Eva has to give my name. There is a tremendous shortage of doctors in general, made worse at the moment because it’s holiday time. Fetscher, my former colleague, great friend of the Jews, who has been prevented from treating Jews; Fetscher is on holiday until the beginning of August. Dr. von Wegmam, who once made a home visit to Eva in Hohe Strasse, is no longer at the place listed in the address book, and as a Baltic German his views are doubtful. Professor Grote of the Johannstadter Hospital “is not taking any new patients before the middle of August.
- 1943,October 16, Saturday evening toward ten o’clock – I left Eva about five hours ago; the ambulance drove into Fürstenstrasse City Hospital, which I was not allowed to enter. She was relatively fresh and heartily cheerful, but I cannot get rid of the terrible thought that perhaps I have seen her for the last time. It’s a pressure inside me; beyond that, hunger, boredom, egoistical imagining of my deportation if my Aryan wife dies, certainty that I am too much a coward to commit suicide, thoughts on what I should do then—I asked her where she had hidden my manuscripts [… ]—feeling of absolute emptiness, and underneath it all, while eating, reading, whatever my occupation, there is the pure physical pressure. I am nothing without Eva, and if I lose her I shall go on dragging out a meaningless life out of sheer senseless fear of death. [… ] **p269
- 1943, October 18, Monday toward evening – I sent Frau Rasch to the hospital with the things Eva requested (soap, tooth powder). She was unable to speak to Eva, but the nurse gave her favorable news. Nevertheless I am uneasy. **p279
- 1943, On Sunday, October 24 – Eva discharged herself “on making a written declaration that it was on her own responsibility and she was not yet recovered” and was brought back in an ambulance. She arrived here about six; I was at the factory (shift from 6:00 P.M. until midnight), our apartment locked. Eva was put to bed at the Eisenmanns’, and Herr Rasch fetched me from Schliiter as we were still sitting in the dining room before starting work. Eva carried up on a chair, was very weak, very limp, very blissful to have escaped the hospital. [… ] **p271
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Source:
- ** I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher : Modern Library; Illustrated edition
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